Best Indie Short: Small Talk by Trevor Scholl (USA)
Best Drama Short: Mespil in the Dark by Gavin Quinn (Ireland)
Best Documentary Short: Climate Diaries: Heather’s Story by Ali Scattergood and Berit Anderson (USA)
Best Action Short: Dream War by Kevin Barile (USA)
Best Thriller Short: Pool by Neil Watson and Sam Johnson (USA)
Best Mystery Short: The Herd Sleeps Standing by Pedro Dannemann (Brazil)
Best Horror Short: Gulabo Rani by Usman Mukhtar (Pakistan)
Best Experimental Short: Capture by Kean Levreault (USA)
Best Student Short: Ecstasy Behind the Forgotten by Nora Stock (USA)
Best Animation Short: Wood: Episode 1 by Michael Anthony McDonough (UK)
Best Women Short: Keep on Looking by Emanuel Vazquez Santana (Argentina)
Best LGBTQ Short: Paukhofstrasse by Hannahlisa Kunyik (Austria)
Best Romantic Short: I See You by Michael Carnick (USA)
Best Microfilm: Salvation by Zane (Canada)
Best Screendance Short: City Of Dreams by Robin Daberath Cantrell (USA)
Best Music Video: Finger Bang Your Day by Jeff Hilliard and John Orphan (USA)
Best Mobile Short: The Exhibition of Expedition 37 by Maggie Colligan (USA)
Best Web Series/TV Pilot: Ice Dealer: Ep 4 by Djiby latdegun Drame (USA)
Best Parody Short: The Exhibition of Expedition 37 by Maggie Colligan (USA)
Best Director (Female): Barbara Stepansky for Women and Elephants (USA)
Best Director (Male): Michael Carnick for I See You (USA)
Best Student Director (Female): Grace Fitzgerald for Acquiescence (USA)
Best Student Director (Male): Yifan Xiang for Manchukuo, 1943, Summer (USA)
Best First Time Director (Female): Selen Örcan for As Possible As Everything (Turkey)
Best First Time Director (Male): Anthony Notarile and Andy Tworischuk for Tito (USA)
Best Actress: Marlowe Holden for Women and Elephants (USA)
Best Actor: Aidan Gillen for Mespil in the Dark (Ireland)
Best Child/Young Actress: Izabella Johnson for Bellybutton (USA)
Best Acting Duo: Emily Chapman and Lucanus Grady for Our Beautiful World (USA)
Best Ensemble Cast: Alexei Bondar, Joseph Ruud, Anthony Notarile, Carol Todd, and Claudio Castagnoli for Tito (USA)
Best Cinematography: Sawyer Gaunt for Tito (USA)
Best Editing: Angelica Falco for Figures (Canada)
Best Production Design: Pulling The Goalie (USA)
Best Sound Design: Stardek for Gulabo Rani (Pakistan)
Best Original Score: Ros Gilman for The Last Cloudweaver (UK)
Best Original Story: Viviana Goelkel, Diana Lowis, Laura Castillo, Julio Azar, Roberto Flores Prieto, and Carlos Franco for Hotel Sweet Hotel (Colombia)
Best Short Script: First Breath After Coma by Mengsheng Zeng (China)





























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